ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,485, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Encoded image based messaging system" was invented by Christie Marie Heikkinen (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis (Los Angeles) and David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to provide users with a means for accessing media content directly, by performing operations that include: causing display of a media item within a graphical user interface at a client device, the graphical user interface including a set of graphical elements; receiving a selection of a graphical element from among the set of graphical element...